C.V. Tevis, The History of the Fighting Fourteenth, 1st ed.

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C. V. Tevis and D. R. Marquis compiled The History of the Fighting Fourteenth in 1911 to commemorate the 1861 mustering-in of the celebrated 14th Brooklyn Zouaves, officially designated 84th New York Volunteers.

The 14th Brooklyn were among the most colorful and accomplished regiments of pre-war militia to serve New York in the Civil War. Their colorful zouave uniforms distinguished them on the battlefields of Manassas, Gettysburg, and Spotsylvania. On July 1, 1863, at Gettysburg they participated in the attack on the Railroad Cut that resulted in the capture of the 2nd Mississippi regiment.

The compiled memoirs are detailed and feature fascinating stories. An extensive essay by Colonel Edward B. Fowler amounts almost to a memoir. The regiment lives in memory through their armory in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. Park Slope is rich in Civil War memory with the Armory, Grand Army Plaza, Fort Greene Park, and Green-Point Cemetery. An attractive artifact of Brooklyn’s Civil War heritage.

Bumped with light foxing and rubbing; front hinge shaking, gift inscription on flyleaf, else v.g.. Gilt lettering and Zouave device on front boards bright and clean,

Tevis, C. V. & D. R. Marquis, compilers. The History of the Fighting Fourteenth. Published in Commemoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Muster of the Regiment into the United States Service, May 23, 1861. New York: Eagle Press, 1911. 1st edition, 366p., illustrations, portraits, roster, (Dornbusch-422).